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Some things to point out to your boss if you want to use Chicken for Real World programming, especially for the Web:

Running an application in a REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop: no compilation step; redefine anything you want, any time) is the original RDE (Rapid Development Environment).

An excellent maintenance environment; bugs can be corrected live, without restarting a single process.

Programmers are capable of so many correct statements per time period. Scheme provides a vehicle to generate more correct statements in any given time period. Fewer bugs = Faster code.

Chicken Scheme is easy to learn, and there are plenty of resources available.

Very supportive community, with a wide intellectual background.

Unit testing frameworks available and used by core and extension code.

Works with third-party libraries written in C, C++, Java, Python, and Lua. Support for major databases.

Profile to determine any "hotspots". Then compile for a "bare metal" speed-up.

Supports Windows, BSD, Linux, MacOS X, and embedded platforms.

Works great in an environment where forking processes is cheap: you can write small, fast programs that are suitable for Unix-style design (forks, pipes, etc.). A good approach for shared-nothing, highly-scalable applications; unlike Java.